Hat adjuster and retainer



Jan. 29, 1924.- 1,482,261

' J. RUBENSTEIN HAT ADJUSTER AND RETAINER Filed April 28, 1923 INVENTOR HIS ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 29,1924.

s rains ea'raar JACOB RUBENS EIN, on NEW YORK, N. 1., ASSIGNOR To HOLD TIGHT HAT ADJUSTER, me, on NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION or NEW YORK.

v I-IAT ADJUSTER Ann RETAINER.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JACOB RUBENsTE N, a citizen of the'United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of Bronx, State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Hat Adjuster and Retainer; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same. I

My invention relates to hats for womens wear and has particular reference to a means for adjusting the head size of such hats. Womens hats, according to the prevailing style, are made of sufiicientsize in the crown to enable them to fit well down over the wearers head. In order that the hats may be worn in this way without the use of fastening or hat pins, it has heretofore been customary to haveithe hats fit closely in orderthat they will be retained on the head, as otherwise they would easily become disarranged, or, inuthe event of its being windy, readily blown ofi. 'Because of such necessity of having the hat fit closely on the head, it has been more difficult than formerly to obtain a ready fit. To obviate. such difliculty and enable any approximate oversize of hat to be readily and properly fitted to a wearers head has been the object ofmy present invention. Thisobject I attain by providing the hat with a flexible "strip arrangedto extend across the head space in the hat in a position slightly forward of its rear end where it will engage the back of the wearers head and firmly hold the hat in place. 7

Referring now to the accompanying drawing formingpart' of the-above specification- Figure 1 shows a hat equipped with my 7 may be applied to any shape or style of womens hat.

The hat here shown, indicated at 2, is provided with a flexible strip 3 extending across the head space in the hat in a position for- Application filed April as, 132a. Serial No. 635,266.

ward of its rear end 4, which strip is provided at its opposite ends withsuitable fastening deviceasuch as the safety pins 5, for detachable and adjustable connection with the hat. With the strip 3 in this position in the hat, when the latter is placed on the wearers head, such strip will engage the head at the back thereof, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and act to firmly hold the hat in place. By adjusting the position of the strip 3 forward or backward in the hat, it will be obvious that the hat may be readily adjusted or adapted to fit most any size of head. A certain variation of size without adjustment of the ends of the strip may also be provided for by making the strip of elastic material, which I preferably do. When thus made of elastic, the strip will of course yield more or less and so automatically adapt itself to the wearers head.

It is desirable that the elastic strip 3 should be a relatively broad one, as shown, for contact with the wearers head, and as a means to maintain it fiat and prevent twisting of the same, metallic fastening devices 7 are provided at the opposite ends of the strip which grip the same throughout its width. These devices 7 not only serve to prevent twisting of the elastic strip, but they also provide loops through which the fastening devices or pins 5 extend for connection with the elastic strip, as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

With the use of the strip 3 in the position shown and described, it will act to always hold the hat, of whatever size it may be, with the front thereof in normal position to the face as the flexibility of this class of hats will assure their ready conformation or fit to the wearers head at the front thereof under the pulling action of the elastic strip 3 at the rear side of the head. The fact that the hat at its rear end may be slightly spaced from the rear of the wearers head will be wholly unobjectionable from the standpoint of appearance for the rea son that it will not be observable from the rear, and on the other hand, it will be desirable from the standpoint of health and comfort, in that it will prevent the hat from bearing too closely against the rear of the head, a slight air space at such point being desirable in any event.

A further and important feature of the use of the strip 3 as a means for holding the hat in place, is. the fact that its fastening devicesfi may be secured to the lining 6 of the hat as shown and thus avoid marring atively Wide elastic stripextending across;

the head space in the hat in a position forward of itsirearyend metallic-stiffening devices adjacent the ends of the stripgripping 1 the latter throughout: its width to prevent twisting; of: the same ancL providing loops at the ends of the strip; said loops extend ing transversely of the strip, and fastening means for detachably securing the strip withinthe hat extending through said loops transversely of the strip, said fastening means: being substantially confined to the longitudinal plane of said strip and having guarded hat piercing portions. 7

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature;

JAQO'B: RUBENSTEIN. 

